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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose offices and printing presses were destroyed in the narrative of the second Preface?
(a) A pastor's.
(b) A lawyer's.
(c) A doctor's.
(d) A teacher's.

2. Approximately how many issues of his newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison publish?
(a) 15,000 issues.
(b) 100 issues.
(c) 500 issues.
(d) 1,800 issues.

3. What is Douglass's concern in Chapter 1 symbolic for?
(a) Loss of his identity.
(b) Feeling helpless.
(c) Lack of control.
(d) Not being loved.

4. Who does Douglass begin Chapter 1 talking about?
(a) His mother and her parents.
(b) His first master.
(c) His brother and sister.
(d) His slave friend.

5. What is the possible real reason that the female slave was beaten?
(a) She was disobedent.
(b) She is found with a male slave and her master was jealous.
(c) She ran away, but was later caught.
(d) She stole some food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the final line of Garrison's Preface (x)?

2. What does the author of the second Preface compare slaves to?

3. When did William Lloyd Garrison see the abolitionist speech described in the Preface?

4. Wendell Phillips was the son of a mayor of what city in Massachusetts?

5. Where is the opening Preface said to be written?

(see the answer key)

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